The History of World War 3

by Sal Rosken

 

 

 

With the perspective of time, History will reveal the probable invasion, liberation, occupation and military administration of Iraq was but one, and by no means the most important, of many battles, fought in a very long and far reaching World War that began in 1979, well before the Iraqi campaign.

 

The Invasion

 

On November 4, 1979 an Iranian Islamic cleric, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, declared war on America when his militant Islamic followers invaded the United States by attacking the sovereign territory of the US embassy in Tehran, kidnapping 52 US diplomats and holding them hostage for 444 days. The weak and ineffectual response of President Jimmy Carter to this invasion of the United States provided the radical Islamic world with all the evidence it needed to convince itself the West was a culture in decline, and it's leading country, America, could be humiliated and defeated easily, and with impunity. America's failure to respond to the Iranian Invasion of America with a severe and decisive military action was to World War Three what Europe's reaction to Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia was to World War Two - a timid response of appeasement that encouraged imperialistic dreams of world conquest in a sociopathic mentality.

 

The Marshaling of Troops

 

Exhilarated and invigorated by Iran's successful Invasion of 1979, the radical Islamic world began a determined and concerted campaign of fund raising, recruitment, training, armament and mobilization that resulted in the formation of an alliance of Anti Western Islamic nations which included Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, and Afghanistan. While on the surface the titular heads of many of these national governments maintained a posture of "friendly" relations with the West, the true leaders of these nations, the ruling tribal and theocratic oligarchs, quietly kept their ambitious war plans and preparations proceeding apace, many with the express knowledge, funding and consent of the nominal heads of the national governments.

 

It was among these nations that the recruitment, funding, and training for additional attacks against the West were planned and carried out: Egypt provided the philosophic and ideological underpinnings of the War through the offices of the Islamic Brotherhood, Pakistan afforded the recruitment and indoctrination of militant Islam's jihadist warriors through the management of thousands of radical madrasas, Saudi Arabia contributed much needed financing for the War through outright grants to terrorist groups and the establishment of Islamic "charities" designed to provide an ongoing flow of revenues to support Anti West operations, Iran acted as radical Islam's Ministry of Propaganda and Information through the virulent radical Islamic proclamations issued by a succession of extremist Ayatollahs and clerics, Libya furnished an elite corps of special operation shock troops who carried out early terror missions deep in the West's territory, while Yemen, Sudan and Afghanistan supplied the logistics and safe havens for the military training camps where the young Islamic recruits were trained in jihadist warfare after graduating from their indoctrination in the Anti West curriculum of the Islamic madrasas.

 

The Mobilization

 

In the two decades that followed the Invasion of America, the Islamic world, inspired by the Iranian example, carried out an expansionist campaign of radicalization, mobilization, and infiltration that placed terrorist operatives throughout the Western world. Like the two previous World Wars the Third World War soon spread across many theatres of conflict and involved many participants. Fierce and bloody battles, designed to destroy legitimate secular governments and replace them with Islamic states, soon erupted in Russia, India, China, the Balkans, the Philippines, Indonesia, Africa, and Southeast Asia; while simultaneously, Islamic militia groups fought to exterminate non Muslim and Christian groups in Lebanon, Algeria and other countries throughout the Middle East. Each of these fronts in the War was supported in varying degrees by the efforts of the Anti West Islamic Alliance.

 

 

The Western Campaign

 

After the Invasion of US territory by Iran in 1979, the Western campaign of the Islamic Wars proceeded cautiously, gradually growing in boldness with each new attack. America and the West mistakenly ignored these attacks, or treated them as minor skirmishes of no great significance. Even a cursory review of only some of the more notable events in the escalating war against the West, and it's interests, demonstrates the ever increasing boldness, sophistication, scale and coordination of the radical Islamic forces. While a complete and comprehensive list of all the attacks made by the Islamic forces in World War Three is well beyond the scope of this article, a partial listing of only some of the attacks that were most noticeable to the West is nevertheless instructive.

 

Successive Western governments and administrations, especially America, stood by and watched impotently as:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Counter Attack

 

In the 21st year of World War Three America finally arose from it's torpor and initiated a serious response to two decades of radical Islamic warfare. After suffering the devastating attacks of September 11, 2001, on October 7, 2001 America launched a meaningful counter attack against the radical Islamic forces and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Like the Allied landing in Sicily in World War Two, the battle of Afghanistan provided America with it's first landing on enemy territory in World War Three.

 

America is now in the 23nd year of World War Three and Iraq is but one more battle in this War. Like Russia during World War II, first an ally of Germany with the signing of the Non Aggression Pact, then an enemy of Germany when Hitler opened the second front attacking Russia, Iraq, in reverse, started first as an enemy of the forces of radical Islam, and now, changing course, has become a protected and valued ally of the Alliance of Anti Western Islamic nations.

 

There is nothing unusual or unprecedented in this opportunistic changing of sides for political convenience, particularly when Iraq has chemical and biological weapons and nuclear scientific knowledge that the Anti West Islamic Alliance would dearly love to access. As Afghanistan was to World War Three what Sicily was to World War Two, so now Iraq is to World War Three what Normandy was to World War Two - the beginning of a second major offensive designed to exterminate the forces of Totalitarianism. This is why the Alliance of Anti Western Islamic Nations, who harbor and support the radical Islamic jihadist groups, are now so opposed to America establishing a beachhead in the region with an Iraqi Invasion.

 

Underestimating the Enemy

 

History will look back and determine that the West failed to recognize the danger posed by radical Islam by repeatedly ignoring and underestimating the size and scope of the forces aligned against it. Well orchestrated and ever increasing sophisticated attacks were not only repeatedly countered by being mildly deplored, but virtually ignored; and when a particularly horrible attack occurred which forced the West into a position in which some action could not be avoided, only the weakest of responses was offered.

 

The West's underestimation of the threat posed by the Alliance of Anti Western Islamic Nations resulted from a facile conviction that 97.5 percent of the World's 1.5 Billion Muslims were peaceful moderate individuals and only a small and insignificant 2.5 percent were radical Fundamentalists who sought the destruction of the West. This assumption was generally regarded as being correct as it conforms with what we know about the scientific nature of large populations and Normal Distributions or Bell Curves; but 2.5 percent of a population of 1.5 billion Muslims yields 37.5 million radicals pledged to the destruction of America and the West, a population that is 14 million larger than the entire population of Saudi Arabia, 5.1 million larger than the entire population of Canada, and roughly equivalent to the entire population of Argentina.

 

Based on the simple laws of Statistics this radical 2.5 percent, (who interpret Islam as requiring the destruction of the infidel, the establishment of a worldwide Ummah and the imposition of sharia law) would exist statistically even if American foreign policy was viewed by the remaining 97.5 percent of Muslims as a beneficent force in the Islamic world; or even if the Israelis and Palestinians reached a mutually satisfactory and permanent resolution to their conflict.

 

After two decades of radical indoctrination in madrasas in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Pakistan and in military training camps in Yemen, Sudan and Afghanistan a convincing case can be made that the Normal Distribution of Islam's total population has been skewed to increase the radical percentage by much more than the expected 2.5 percent found in a Normal Distribution - an increase to 4 or 5 percent would not be unreasonable to expect. This would increase the radical Islamic population from 37.5 million under a Normal Distribution to a skewed radical population of 75 million.

 

Only by skewing the curve in the opposite direction, by making membership in the radical 2.5 percent so onerous, dangerous and deadly and by making membership in the non radical 97.5% rewarding can America and the West hope to safeguard itself from a continuation of attacks. And this can only occur by forcibly changing the political, economic, social and religious culture of the Middle East. Wishing a Reformation in Islam will not make it so.

 

The Uncertain Outcome

 

History will show it was only in the 23nd year of World War Three that the West began to face, reluctantly and grudgingly, the magnitude of the threat confronting it. It was only then, led by Britain and America, the West began to mount a true offensive to counter the radical Islamic attack. Whether this offensive will be too little, too late is still to be determined. The outcome is by no means certain.

 

Like the European Thirty Years War, which pitted all of Europe's Catholics against its Protestants, this War pits two opposing worldviews, which are not only irreconcilable, but also mutually exclusive. That one of these worldviews, radical Islam, is informed by an irrational religiosity bent upon extinguishing Western Civilization, makes it an absolute necessity for the West to treat this World War much more seriously and much more urgently.

 

This Third World War may very well become a 50 year, a 75 year, even a 100 year war, but it would be a grave mistake to believe the War just began on September 11, 2001, or is only now about to begin, or end, with Iraq.

 

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